Chronicle of Neil Keenan’s Trillion Dollar Bonds Lawsuit: The BIS, Bretton Woods, Black Gold and Maklumat Codes
This is blow-out news. Hang on to your hats as you read through it.
This is a subset of my post: Slaying Of The Gmork or Growing A Foundation On Love
ADDED:
05/30/12
Herald Online:
Ex-Cameron aide detained over alleged perjury
“Andy Coulson, 44, was detained by Scottish police at his home in London over an accusation related to testimony he gave in a high-profile case at Glasgow’s High Court in 2010, when politician Tommy Sheridan was himself convicted of offering a false account in a legal hearing.”
“The prime minister’s ties to both Coulson and their mutual friend Rebekah Brooks, an ex-chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, have brought the tabloid phone hacking scandal to Cameron’s doorstep.”
UPDATE 05/30/12 Reuters: Coulson has now been charged with perjury over phone hacking
I can’t put my finger on it, but I just have a major feeling that some of the hidden puzzle pieces laying about regarding who really was responsible for 911 are going to fall into place as this case proceeds.
07/08/11 Guardian: UK David Cameron’s former press sec. Andy Coulson has been arrested (he was released 2 days later)
05/15/12
Reuters:
Ex-Murdoch editor charged over UK phone-hacking scandal
“Brooks, 43, was charged with concealing material from detectives, conspiring to remove boxes of archive records from Murdoch’s London headquarters, and hiding documents, computers and other electronic equipment from the police. If found guilty she could face a prison sentence.”
“Also charged were Brooks’s racehorse trainer husband Charlie Brooks, her secretary and other staff including her driver and security officials from News International, the British newspaper arm of Murdoch’s News Corp media empire.”
05/02/12
Guardian UK:
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox broadcast licences (var.) targeted by US ethics group
“A Washington-based ethics watchdog is calling on federal regulators to revoke News Corporation‘s 27 Fox broadcast licences in the wake of the highly critical report on phone hacking from the UK parliament.”
“Pryce-Jones said he blamed News Corp’s independent directors for much of what had gone wrong. The directors include top US lawyer Viet Dinh, chief architect of the USA Patriot Act, Joel Klein, the former chancellor of the New York City department of education and Rod Eddington, former chief executive of British Airways. ‘They have said that they are going to act, but they have done nothing. They need a Plan B. Plan A was apparently to ignore this and hope it would go away,’ he said.”
Big story, but WTF is this about an NI Board of Directors person being a “chief architect of the USA Patriot Act” !?!?!?
05/01/12
DN!
British Parliament: Rupert Murdoch Not Fit to Run Media Company
“A British parliamentary report has found Rupert Murdoch is ‘not a fit person’ to run a major international media company in light of the widespread phone hacking scandal at News Corp. A committee of British MPs said Murdoch and his son, James, showed ‘willful blindness’ about the scale of phone-hacking at the News of the World tabloid.
Labor MP Tom Watson spoke soon after the report was released.”
Excerpt from Tom Watson’s statement: “The very cornerstone of justice is that those really responsible are held to account, that the rich and powerful are as low in the face of the law as the most humble and weak. And everybody in the world knows who is responsible for the wrongdoing of News Corp.: Rupert Murdoch. More than any individual alive, he is to blame. Morally, the deeds are his. He paid the piper and he called the tune. It is his company, his culture, his people, his business, his failures, his lies, his crimes, the price of profits and his power.”
Brilliantly stated! 
04/30/12
Guardian UK:
David Cameron called to Commons to face urgent question on Jeremy Hunt
“David Cameron is to be required to make an urgent Commons statement about the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, a development that will infuriate No 10 and strengthen its suspicion of the Speaker, John Bercow.”
“David Cameron will cut short an election tour to make the Commons statement on Monday afternoon, amid pressure on Hunt over his handling of News Corp’s bid to take full control of BSkyB.”
Appears that it is PM Cameron’s turn to get to hop on the hot seat.
04/25/12
Jakarta Post:
At inquiry, Rupert Murdoch defends 50 year record (sic)
“Murdoch was being quizzed under oath before an inquiry run by Lord Justice Brian Leveson, who is examining the relationship between British politicians and the press, a key question emerging amid the phone hacking scandal that brought down Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid.”
“Speculation that Murdoch was seeking to inflict political pain on the Cameron’s Conservatives mounted Tuesday when his son James gave damning testimony about British Olympics czar Jeremy Hunt. The younger Murdoch released documents that suggested that the Conservative minister had secretly smoothed the way for News Corp.’s proposed takeover of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC, a lucrative satellite broadcaster.”
Sounds like cracks are emerging in the Murdoch family dynasty.
04/13/12
Wash. Post (Related news):
Lawyer: Times of London Being Sued Over Email Hack
“According to an account of the lawsuit published in Britain’s New Statesman magazine, [Richard] Horton’s lawyer raised the possibility that the detective’s Hotmail account had been illegal accessed — an allegation dismissed as ‘baseless’ in 2009 by Times lawyer Alastair Brett.”
“However, in public statements and in testimony before an official inquiry into media ethics, senior Times managers admitted that one of their reporters had accessed Horton’s account.”
04/12/12
Guardian UK:
News International braced as lawyer brings phone-hacking scandal to US
“[Lawyer Mark] Lewis will arrive in the US on Saturday and next week will begin legal discussions in New York, just a stone’s throw away from News Corporation‘s global headquarters on Sixth Avenue. His arrival constitutes a major escalation in the legal ramifications of the hacking scandal for Murdoch, who has tried desperately to keep it away from the American core of his multi-billion-dollar media holdings.”
“An irony of the arrival of Lewis in the US is that it comes soon after James Murdoch, Rupert’s youngest son, relocated from the UK to New York partially, it is thought, in a move to try and distance him from the phone-hacking scandal. “
This news signals, IMHO, that we will ultimately learn that the “phone hacking” alone pales in comparison to a much more stunning “bankster” revelation. Ready to take a ride? Hang on to your seats.
04/10/12
Guido Fawkes’ blog (Related news):
Motorman: Britain’s Biggest Establishment Cover-Up
“The Operation Motorman files are huge, the thousands of entries contained in the files are a mere snapshot of the industrial scale criminality carried out by the press. Today Guido is releasing the Blue Book section of the Operation Motorman files covering the 1,028 News International related entries out of a total of some 17,000. These files are known to most newspaper editors and to Guido’s knowledge no action has been taken against the journalists named within, some of whom are now senior journalists. To Guido’s knowledge Guardian journalists have possession of the files covering the Mail and Mirror groups. One wonders why they so far have only been willing to name the names of journalists from the Murdoch press…” [color red embedded in article]
On an exponential basis now, the dwellers in Plato’s Cave are leaving the cave to reach critical mass.
04/03/12
Guardian UK:
James Murdoch to step down as BSkyB chairman
“James Murdoch will step down as chairman of BSkyB shortly, after the man who had been thought of as Rupert Murdoch’s corporate heir concluded it was no longer worth hanging on and risking a critical verdict from MPs inquiring into phone hacking.”
“His determination to step down at this point has surprised friends, given that only a few weeks earlier James Murdoch resolved to stay on a Sky even as he relocated to New York and gave up his job as executive chairman of News International, the publisher of the now closed News of the World, the Sun and the Times.”
Pride goeth before the fall…
03/29/12
Salon:
UK hacking scandal claims 3rd senior police figure
“Dick Fedorcio stepped down after the force decided he would face disciplinary proceedings over a contract awarded to a former executive at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled that Fedorcio had to answer questions over the decision to hire Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive later arrested on suspicion of breaking into voicemails.”
03/17/12 Monterey Herald: James Murdoch leaving board of Sotheby’s
“News Corp. executive James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, is stepping down from the board of Sotheby’s, the auction house has said. “
“Murdoch, the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been shedding posts to concentrate on his role in his father’s television business as News Corp. struggles to shake off the phone-hacking furor.”02/29/12 CBS News:James Murdoch resigns as exec chair of News Intl
“(AP) LONDON — James Murdoch is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper arm, the company said Wednesday.”Guardian UK on James’ resignation: “Labour MP Chris Bryant, who received a £30,000 settlement after having his phone hacked by the News of the World, said: ‘After all we’ve heard, James Murdoch’s resignation is long overdue.’ “
” ‘On his watch, we have seen the biggest corporate corruption scandal since 1720 and historic titles like The Sun have been brought into disrepute.’ ” [emphasis mine]
03/13/12
Reuters:
Murdoch exec Brooks re-arrested in hacking probe: report
“Brooks, who has become a central figure in the phone hacking scandal, is 43-years-old and lives in Oxfordshire.”
“Sky News, which is part owned by Murdoch’s media group, said her husband Charlie Brooks had also been detained.”
“One of the descriptions of those arrested – police declined to name them – also fitted the description of James Murdoch, but two sources said he was currently in the United States.”
03/06/12
MSNBC:
Two Murdoch journalists reportedly attempt suicide as pressure mounts
“Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch’s News International have apparently attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World.”
“The London Evening Standard reported that other News International journalists are “terribly stressed and many are on the edge.” The company has reportedly offered psychiatric help to any journalist who wants help.”
Very sad. If these and others under the microscope right now are innocent, I do hope they can find the courage to just speak their Truth then walk away and begin life anew.
02/29/12
CBS News:
James Murdoch resigns as exec chair of News Intl
“(AP) LONDON — James Murdoch is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper arm, the company said Wednesday.”
02/05/12
Sun Herald Mississippi
Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry
“Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said in a statement that police had also searched the homes of the five staff and the group’s London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing.”
“A 39-year-old female employee at Britain’s ministry of defense, a 36-year-old male member of the armed forces and a 39-year-old serving police officer with Surrey Police, were also arrested in an early morning swoop, police said.”
Here comes the meat to complement the potatoes. And the beat goes on….and on, and on…
Reuters:
Insight: Inside Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper clean-up operation
“(Reuters) – The centre of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper clean-up operation is an unimposing set of offices in a corner of the company’s campus in Wapping, east London.”
“[...]The MSC’s work is earning respect from many who have clashed with the company over phone hacking. But it also faces criticism on multiple fronts, including News International journalists who fear it is tossing loyal staff under the bus, parliamentarians who suspect it is insufficiently independent of Murdoch, and lawyers who allege the committee’s main interest is in repairing the company’s reputation, not outing the truth.” [emphasis mine]
The reputation of Rupert and James Murdoch is beyond repairable, IMHO.
01/28/12
Guardian UK:
Sun employees and police officer arrested in corruption investigation
“Four current and former employees of the Sun newspaper and one serving police officer have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s investigation into police corruption.”
“The Metropolitan police have also launched a search at News International‘s headquarters in Wapping in a bid to secure any potential evidence relating to suspected payments to police by journalists.”
01/27/12
Reuters:
James Murdoch to quit GSK board
” ‘James Murdoch has decided to stand down from the board with effect from this year’s AGM (in May),’ GSK Chairman Christopher Gent said in a statement, as Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical company announced a raft of other changes to its board that would take place at a later date.”
So why was a newspaper magnate on the board of a global pharmaceutical company? Is that not a glaring conflict of interest? Rhetorical questions, I suppose.
01/22/12
Reuters:
News Corp mulls bid for Turkey’s ATV and Sabah: WSJ
“Calik and its advisors at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. had been seeking preliminary bids by January 18, but have pushed the deadline back until next week, in part to accommodate News Corp, Wall Street Journal reported, citing a source.”
Murdoch and Goldman Sachs should have been charged and put on trial with all sorts of despicable behavior they have wreaked on the people around the world—how are they able to continue their plunders, still untouched by the long reach of the LAW?!?.
01/19/12
Philly Burbs:
Murdoch to pay Jude Law, 36 others for hacking
“Lawyers for the claimants said the settlements vindicated their accusation that senior Murdoch executives had long known about the scale of illegal phone hacking and had tried to cover it up.”
“News International, the parent company of Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers, said it did not admit that senior staff knew of the wrongdoing and tried to cover it up _ but it said that ‘for the purpose of reaching these settlements only, News Group Newspapers agreed that the damages to be paid to claimants should be assessed as if this was the case.’ “
Still waiting for trials at the top here – settlements are cop outs.
01/15/12
Guardian UK:
Rupert Murdoch squares off with Obama over online piracy legislation
” ‘So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” he wrote in a series of five tweets, accusing Google of hosting pirated material and selling advertising against it.’ ” [emphasis mine]
Isn’t this akin to the pot calling the kettle black? Murdoch, keep your snooping nose out of my government! Your credibility factor has crashed to zero. You’re a remnant of what is fast becoming a crushed era of corrupt media control and propaganda. Get over yourself.
12/14/11
Fresno Bee:
Lawyer: James Murdoch was shown hacking evidence
“The document is considered a key piece of evidence in proving that News International had attempted to hide the extent of the scandal from the public.”
” ‘What was certainly discussed was the email … and what it meant in terms of further involvement in phone hacking beyond Goodman and Mulcaire,’ [Tom] Crone told the inquiry, referring to the June 2008 meeting.”
12/07/11
HuffPost:
Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet
“WASHINGTON — News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress’ attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday for two measures that purport to combat piracy.”
“Murdoch’s presence comes as high-profile opponents, such as Google’s Eric Schmidt, have been ramping up their public efforts to kill the bills.”
This man, like any neo-con, has no scruples whatsoever—just huge doses of arrogance and self adulation.
11/07/11
Guardian UK:
News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims’ lawyers
“The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.”
10/21/11
Salon Com:
Murdoch takes On Shareholders At Annual Meeting
“LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rupert Murdoch jousted with disgruntled shareholders Friday as the 80-year-old chairman and CEO of News Corp. defended his handling of a phone hacking scandal in Britain and deflected any notion that he plans to step down soon.”
More than 100 protesters gathered outside the 20th Century Fox studio lot where News Corp. held its annual shareholders meeting.
Occupy Los Angeles Protesters Demonstrate Outside News Corp’s Annual Shareholders Meeting
10/12/11
Guardian UK: Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive
“One of Rupert Murdoch‘s most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries about a circulation scam at News Corporation‘s flagship newspaper, the Wall Street Journal.”
“In what appears to have been a damage limitation exercise following the Guardian’s inquiries, Langhoff resigned on Tuesday, citing only the complaints of unethical interference in editorial coverage. Neither he nor an article published last night in the Wall Street Journal made any reference to the circulation scam nor to the fact that the senior management of Dow Jones in New York failed to act when they were alerted last year.”
09/16/11
Guardian UK:
Hacking: Met use Official Secrets Act to demand Guardian reveals sources
“The Metropolitan police are seeking a court order under the Official Secrets Act to make Guardian reporters disclose their confidential sources about the phone-hacking scandal.”
“In an unprecedented legal attack on journalists’ sources, Scotland Yard officers claim the act, which has special powers usually aimed at espionage, could have been breached in July when reporters Amelia Hill and Nick Davies revealed the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone. They are demanding source information be handed over.”
Murdoch actually has the power to demand that the UK govt treat his papers as though a military action?!? Speaks volumes. It’s okay though, because by this time next year, world citizens will have succeeded in substantially bringing down the mil/pol/econ apparatus that has produced such ridiculous, control-freaking “rules.”
09/16/11
Guardian:
News Corp shareholders lodge complaint against Rupert Murdoch
“A prominent group of US banks and investment funds with substantial investments in News Corporation has issued a fresh legal complaint accusing the company of widespread corporate misconduct extending far beyond the phone-hacking excesses of News of the World.”
“In legal documents, the shareholders allege that the two companies were accused by multiple parties of ‘stealing computer technology, hacking into business plans and computers and violating the law through a wide range of anti-competitive behaviour’.”
yep, the 1% are beginning to eat their own now.
09/06/11
Guardian UK:
Leveson Hearing - Colin Myler and Tom Crone face MPs’ questions on News of the World phone hacking
“James Murdoch has issued a statement saying he stands by the evidence he gave to the select committee in July, following today’s claims that he was definitely told of the existence of an explosive email that showed more than one reporter was involved in phone-hacking at the News of the World.”
“He says ‘neither Mr Myler nor Mr Crone told me that wrongdoing extended beyond Mr Goodman or Mr Mulcaire,’ in reference to the former royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, both of whom were convicted of phone-hacking charges in 2007.”
08/25/11
9/11 Families Meet With US Attorney General Eric Holder – NOTW Phone Hacking
Close encounters of the vile kind.
Leveson Inquiry: Colin Myler and Tom Crone face MPs’ questions on News of the World phone hacking (Photo: PA) Sep 06 2011
08/16/11
HuffPost:
NoW Reporter Clive Goodman Alleges Huge Cover-UP, Wide Knowledge of Hacking
“Clive Goodman, the former royal reporter jailed for his role in phone hacking, wrote a letter in 2007 claiming that phone hacking was ‘widely discussed’ at editorial meetings, and that former editor Andy Coulson offered to let him keep his job if he agreed to say in court that he was a rogue element within the paper.”
“The Guardian’s Nick Davies also reports that Les Hinton, the former Dow Jones chief who resigned amidst allegations about his role in the scandal, received a copy of Goodman’s letter but failed to pass it to the police. He then told Parliament that Coulson was completely unaware of the hacking going on.”
This damps down and muddies up Murdoch’s Empire of Dirt considerably.
08/12/11
Adweek:
Michael Wolff on the state of the Murdoch empire and its Mob-like structure
“Well-sourced information coming out of the Department of Justice and the FBI suggests a debate is going on that could result in the recently launched investigations of News Corp. falling under the RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act,] statutes.”
“Among the areas that the FBI is said to be looking at in its investigation of News Corp. are charges that one of its subsidiaries, News America Marketing, illegally hacked the computer system of a competitor, Floorgraphics, and then, using the information it had gleaned, tried to extort it into selling out to News Corp.; allegations that relationships the New York Post has maintained with New York City police officers may have involved exchanges of favors and possibly money for information; and accusations that Fox chief Roger Ailes sought to have an executive in the company, the book publisher Judith Regan, lie to investigators about details of her relationship with New York police commissioner Bernie Kerik in order to protect the political interests of Rudy Giuliani, then a presidential prospect.”
08/10/11
Time Swampland:
Murdoch’s Well-Connected Point Man on the News Corp. Hacking Probe
“The man tapped by Rupert Murdoch to oversee News Corp.’s internal probe of wrongdoing by the company has some elite qualifications. Viet Dinh went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, served as assistant attorney general early in the Bush administration, co-authored the Patriot Act, and now teaches corporate law at Georgetown University Law Center.” (emphasis mine)
“He also is best friends with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, who is leading the U.S. investigation into the company.
Interesting how small the circle is when masters of corruption investigate their own. No amount of turmoil going on right now should take the ball off the Murdoch empire, as much as they are trying to do just that.
Palm Beach Post:
Police arrest Greg Miskiw of Delray Beach in NotW phone hacking probe
Police arrest Greg Miskiw of Delray Beach in NotW phone hacking probe Aug 10 2011
“Greg Miskiw, 61, one of the few senior editors at the time of the phone-hacking who had not yet been arrested, told Britain’s Channel 4 news last month he was preparing to return from his Delray Beach home to Britain to talk to police. Miskiw returned to England after the Palm Beach Post reported July 20th that he was quietly living in a tropical hideaway in downtown Delray Beach, just blocks from the ocean.”
“Detectives said the man had been held at midday after he arrived by appointment at a London police station on “suspicion of unlawful interception of communications” and conspiring to commit the same offence.”
“The arrest was made by detectives conducting an inquiry into whether journalists and private investigators, seeking gossip for stories, illegally intercepted voicemail messages on mobile phones of people ranging from celebrities and politicians to murder victims and the families of dead soldiers.”
08/02/11
Guardian UK:
NoW exec Stuart Kuttner bailed after arrest
NoW exec Stuart Kuttner bailed after arrest Aug 03 2011
“Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the Worldand its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and of bribing police officers to leak sensitive information.”
“Kuttner, 71, was described at the time of his resignation by the last editor of the newspaper, Colin Myler, as a man whose “DNA is absolutely integrated into the newspaper which he has represented across the media with vigour”.
07/28/11
Guardian UK:
News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne’s mother
News of the World targeted phone of Sarah Payne’s mother July 28 2011
“The evidence that police have found in Mulcaire’s notes is believed to relate to a phone given to Sara Payne by Rebekah Brooks as a gift to help her stay in touch with her supporters.”
“The Labour MP Tom Watson, who has been an outspoken critic of News International, said of the Payne revelation: ‘This is a new low. The last edition of the News of the World made great play of the paper’s relationship with the Payne family. Brooks talked about it at the committee inquiry. Now this. I have nothing but contempt for the people that did this.’ ” (emphasis mine)
I second that emotion, Mr.Watson.
07/27/11
NY Daily News:
Attorney General Eric Holder willing to meet with 9/11 families worried about phone hacking
” ‘The attorney general has met with 9/11 family members on a number of occasions and would welcome the opportunity to meet with them to discuss any concerns,’ spokesman Matthew Miller said.”
“The Daily Mirror, a British paper, reported that the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World had offered a former NYPD officer money for the phone records of people killed in the World Trade Center. The Mirror story said that the city cop turned down the offer.”
“Willing” to meet? It’s his duty as a public servant! I sincerely hope that among these families are the Jersey Girls because they (and as far back as 2004, 66% of NYC residents and 56% of New Yorkers) will push for a new, full-supoena, under oath, investigation into 911. Of course, Holder may have selected those families who remain in the dark, which is so, so sad.
Independent UK:
Murdochs were given secret defence briefings
“The extraordinary access that Cabinet ministers granted Rupert Murdoch and his children was revealed for the first time yesterday, with more than two dozen private meetings between the family and senior members of the Government in the 15 months since David Cameron entered Downing Street.”
If this story is accurate, then even the UK’s Education Department was compromised by meetings with the Murdoch media empire. “Cozy relationship” is not strong enough to describe this conspiracy between politics and media to manipulate and control the storyline given to the public, with elements of the police handily thwarting The Truth. In the U.S., our political climate today has the fingerprints of the Murdoch mafia all over it—some of which show up in AIPAC, the (hijacked) Tea Party, and “planted” Democrats .
07/22/11
Guardian UK: “The Law Society has been contacted by solicitors who say the police have notified them that their phones may have been hacked by News of the World journalists.”
Sky News: James Murdoch Misled Inquiry
07/19/11
David Cameron’s full statement on phone-hacking scandal
07/18/11
Guardian UK:
News of the World hacking whistleblower found dead “Sean Hoare, a one-time close friend of Coulson’s, told the New York Times the two men first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson. At the News of the World, Hoare said he continued to inform Coulson of his activities. Coulson ‘actively encouraged me to do it’, Hoare said.”
“In September last year, he was interviewed under caution by police over his claims that the former Tory communications chief asked him to hack into phones when he was editor of the paper, but declined to make any comment. Hoare returned to the spotlight last week, after he told the New York Times that reporters at the News of the World were able to use police technology to locate people using their mobile phone signals in exchange for payments to police officers.”
AND….
Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks’s home “Detectives are examining a computer, paperwork and a phone found in a bin near the riverside London home of Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International. The Guardian has learned that a bag containing the items was found in an underground car park in the Design Centre at the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development on Monday afternoon.
Daily Kos: Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans’ Phones Were Hacked
Fmr. Fox News Executive: Americans’ Phones Were Hacked July 18 2011
“Former Fox News executive Dan Cooper has claimed that a special bunker, requiring security clearance for access was created at the company’s headquarters to conduct ‘counterintelligence’ including snooping on phone records“
07/17/11
London police commissioner Stephenson resigns
Annie Machon (former M15 intelligence officer) on ex-CEO Brooks’ arrest
CNN You Tube: Rebekah Brooks arrested
(~Later – Well, now she has been released. Would it be a stretch to consider that the roots of his empire run so deep into international geopolitics, PowersThatBe would be willing to sacrifice even Murdoch as their frontispiece in order to quell public scrutiny and deflect any investigation into its ultimate source? I’m thinking Netanyahu, for one ).07/15/11
Murdoch’s Dow Jones CEO Resigns Amid Scandal
Murdoch’s Dow Jones CEO Resigns Amid Scandal (Graeme Roberts on Getty Images) July 15 2011
AJE:
Rebekah Brooks, Top Murdoch Executive, quits over hacking “Prior to the announcement of the resignation on Friday, Murdoch had vowed that Brooks had his total support and some had condemned him for moving to close the paper, while Brooks kept her job.
“News of the World printed its final edition on Sunday , and some 200 hundred journalists were laid off as News International struggled to respond to the scandal. But others within the Murdoch establishment had become increasingly critical of Brooks’ ongoing leadership.”
07/13/11
PM Cameron’s Official Announcement of a Public Inquiry into the Phone Hacking Scandal
Reuters:
Crisis-hit News Corp withdraws Sky bid
” Parliament was due to pass a non-binding vote later in the day calling on Murdoch to drop his bid after allegations emerged that journalists at News Corp’s UK newspaper arm had hacked into the phones of a murdered school girl and dead soldiers to generate stories.”
“BSkyB shares were down 1.2 percent after the news, after falling around 20 percent since July 4 when the hacking scandal at tabloid News of the World worsened, prompting the government to launch an inquiry into journalistic practices and phone hacking.”
“”Ian Whittaker at Liberum said it was difficult for News Corp to continue with the bid following the ‘savage attacks’ being dealt out in parliament.”
” ‘Probably they also didn’t want the spotlight on them,’ he told Reuters. ‘There are worries about it spreading to the US.’ “
07/12/11
911 victims family members’ private conversations may have been hacked
MSNBC: Former 9/11 Commissioner Bob Graham states that “Saudi Arabia Gave Assistance To At Least 2 Of The 9/11 Hijackers“
Reuters: NOTW reporters tried to access 9/11 phone data: report “Citing an unidentified source, the newspaper said journalists had wanted the phone numbers of the dead as well as details of the calls they had made and received in the days leading to the attacks.”
07/11/11
Newsweek:
Carl Bernstein: Hacking Scandal Is Murdoch’s WatergateCarl Bernstein: Hacking Scandal Is Murdoch’s Watergate (Reuters) July 11 2011
“But now the empire is shaking, and there’s no telling when it will stop. My conversations with British journalists and politicians—all of them insistent on speaking anonymously to protect themselves from retribution by the still-enormously powerful mogul—make evident that the shuttering of News of the World, and the official inquiries announced by the British government, are the beginning, not the end, of the seismic event.”
“News International, the British arm of Murdoch’s media empire, ‘has always worked on the principle of omertà: Do not say anything to anybody outside the family, and we will look after you,’ notes a former Murdoch editor who knows the system well. ‘Now they are hanging people out to dry. The moment you do that, the omertà is gone, and people are going to talk. It looks like a circular firing squad.’ ” (emphasis mine)
07/07/11
Guardian UK:
Phone-hacking scandal: Ministers and Mr Murdoch “For two or more years the normal checks and balances that should operate in a functioning democracy did not work very well in relation to the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World which is now being stripped bare. The police were – in Alan Johnson’s words – “dishonest, evasive or lethargic”. The press regulator was feeble. Parliament was, with one or two honourable exceptions, ineffective, if not positively intimidated. And the ultimate bastion of our freedoms, the fourth estate, turned a partially blind eye. For a long time it looked as though an awful lot of people just wanted the story to go away.”
“Wednesday’s action in the House of Commons has finally ensured that the discreet burial of the affair won’t happen. In response to effective questioning from the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, the prime minister conceded the need for at least one public inquiry to look at the behaviour of the police as well as the media. That announcement, together with belated but more focused police and PCC investigations, as well as numerous civil actions, means that the truth of a squalid period in British public life will finally emerge.”
Update 07/07/11 News Corp to close News of the World
“No other country would allow one man to garner four national newspapers, become the second-largest broadcaster and hold monopoly on film rights and first-view movies..” British Labour Party MP, Chris Bryant
Beware! Murdoch holdings in America include FOX News Channel, Wall Street Journal, New York Post…
07/04/11 Raw Story:
Murdoch-owned tabloid ‘tapped phone of murdered girl’: report
“In a grim new twist to the long-running phone-hacking row at the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World weekly, The Guardian said police were investigating claims that Milly Dowler, who disappeared in 2002 aged 13, was among those targeted.”
“Journalists at the News of The World hired investigators to hack into Dowler’s phone and listen to increasingly desperate messages left by her parents and friends as the days went past without any word from the teenager, the report said. When her voicemail box became full, they deleted a few of the messages to make room for new ones — an action that her loved ones mistakenly took as proof that Dowler was still alive and using her phone, it said. It also caused confusion among the police detectives investigating her disappearance, and potentially destroyed valuable evidence, the report said.”
04/11/11
The FirstPost:
Phone-hacking: growing list of The Disappeared
“The paper became twitchy and since 2005, when the Taylor hacking took place, there has been a steady movement of people out of the paper’s headquarters in Wapping, east London.”*** Below I have copied 2009-10 news pieces on the Murdoch empire from my Wikileaks, Whistleblowers, and Dismantling Psychopathic Empire in the 21st Century page
09/10/10
Newser:
[Rupert Murdoch's] News Corp. Is Freaking Out“The company has been caught as unaware, as unprepared, as incapable ofNewser’s Michael Wolff: “British police, government, and media took a dive for Murdoch…(but) “…if it becomes necessary to have to throw him overboard to save themselves, they will.” Sep 08 2010
responding, as on the ropes, as it ever has in its 60-year history. News Corp. only knows how to be the aggressor; now it’s on the defensive—and it has to defend itself against the very thing that it has always been, that has always protected it, that is the reason for its fundamental pride: Its newsrooms are down and dirty.”
“And now there’s a deer-in-headlights, I-am-not-a-crook, I-did-not-have-sex-with-that-woman video: a hapless correspondent at the hapless Fox Business channel asking Murdoch about the scandal and him, on his own air, growing dark and angry and refusing to answer, then leaving his minion to shuck and jive and apologize. The video, from more than a year ago, just after the scandal first broke, is suddenly back in viral circulation.”
News of the World and Rupert Murdock responds to phone hacking charges [Reposted on YouTube Aug 23 2010]
07/18/10
Politico:
Fox to partner in Arabic news channel “The National’s Ben Flanagan (disclosure: my successor at the Abu Dhabi-based paper) reports that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia is planning to partner with Murdoch’s Fox network on a 24-hour Arabic-language news channel. They’ve recruited Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, former editor of Al Watan, to head the station. No launch date has been reported.”
06/23/10
World for 9/11 Truth:
OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism “This film will show you how media empires and their popular channels (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, FOX, and all the others) can be used to shape opinions, to control a debate and even to influence a population into wars. This film also unveils some of the most obvious propaganda techniques these media use in order to bring about subjective points of views instead of real objective work.”
“You will never see Fox News and their big ‘pundits’ the same way again after watching OUTFOXED. And you will understand some of the reasons why we often hit hard on the frustrating work of the media regarding their coverage of the 9/11 Truth Movement.11/09/09
Guardian UK:
Murdoch could block Google searches entirely ” ‘The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our stories, we say they steal our stories – they just take them,’ he said. ‘That’s Google, that’s Microsoft, that’s Ask.com, a whole lot of people … they shouldn’t have had it free all the time, and I think we’ve been asleep.’ “
